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Mpemba Paradox: H-Bond Memory and Skin Supersolidity

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Heating stores energy into water by stretching the O:H non-bond and shortening the H–O bond via a Coulomb coupling. Heating and supersolid skin elevate jointly gradients of mass density, specific heat, and thermal conductivity in the liquid, favoring heat flowing outwardly in liquid. Cooling does oppositely, like releasing a highly deformed bungee, to emit heat at a rate depending on initial storage. Convection alone raises the skin temperature without the presence of Mpemba effect. Being sensitive to the liquid volume and the temperature of the drain, Mpemba effect proceeds only in the strictly non-adiabatic source–drain interface ambient with a characteristic relaxation time that drops exponentially with the rise of the initial temperature of the source.

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Sun, C.Q. (2014). Mpemba Paradox: H-Bond Memory and Skin Supersolidity. In: Relaxation of the Chemical Bond. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 108. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-21-7_41

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